Outstanding News in Pictures: 10 August 2011

Violence has broken all over the streets of Chile's capital and other cities on Tuesday. Reportedly, tens of thousands of students riot against police during a demonstration demanding changes in public education. Demonstrators with masks burned cars and barricades, threw furniture at police in Santiago. Even, some other people destroyed department buildings and broke windows. Riot police used gas and water to push the riot back. About 273 protesters were arrested. The rioters call for the government to provide "free and equal" public education along with increase spending on schooling.

Riot police responded gas and water

These contact lenses, costing $15,000 a pair, are designed by Shekhar Eye Research in Mumbai and decorated with real diamonds and gold

Australia's Miss Universe contestant Scherri-Lee Biggs displays the Australian National Costume that she is going to wear at the Miss Universe final in Brazil

A pair of hummingbirds is seen flying in a garden in Colombia

Muammar Gaddafi's son Khamis is seen visiting wounded Libyans in a hospital which denies rumors that he was killed by a NATO air strike near Zlitan

Violence in London has been happening for four nights and flaring to other cities in England. Thousands of police have been deployed

The auroral display appears over sky in Canada's Northwest Territories

The picture shows that new icebergs break off the Sulzberger Ice Shelf. This is due to the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that hit off the coast of Japan at 13,000 km south to the Sulzberger Ice Shelf in Antarctica